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Walter is my cousin’s dog. He really has a thing for swimming.

#animals #4later

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Happy Holidays!!

Find yourself the nearest Light Bulb of Unusual Color and make a wish!

Hoping you’re surrounded by those you love and are staying warm!

#i love this so much!!! #omgcp #zimbits #the ‘papa’ on the kid’s shirt ruined me #dont know how i would have gotten through my exams without cp honesly! lol #so many amazing fanfics! i just love falling in love with new fandoms

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The Most Important Advice I Can Give To Writers

Go to YouTube.

Watch Bob Ross.

Listen to him talk about painting.

Seriously, this guy… this guy is full of advice for a writer who’s having trouble getting started.

He’s not writing, he’s painting, but… okay, like, he can sit there and talk about geology and the diffusion of light and make it clear that he knows what a mountain is and he knows what goes into the interplay of light and perspective, and then you’ll watch him smear some black paint on top of a still wet canvas with a thin metal wedge, and then take a brush and push it downwards so that it mixes with the base in such a way that it ends up lighter at the bottom and eventually just fades into the background.

And then he’ll take some titanium white paint and do the same thing to add snow and light, and you’re thinking… “But… interplay. Geology. Perspective.” and he’s just pushing paint around, talking about figuring out where the north slope lives and how there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents and then he steps back at the end and holy moly, it looks like he painted a mountain.

It doesn’t look like he pushed paint around for ten minutes, it looks like he looked at a real mountain somewhere and copied it.

Is there a real mountain that matches the painting? No. Could he use this method to exactly replicate an actual mountain? No. But he made a mountain that looks real enough, and even if he didn’t have 100% control over the final look of it, he conjured it out of his imagination.

This is the trick that more writers need to learn. It’s possible to create a story or even a whole book through meticulous planning and careful construction, but… most people can’t do that. It’s not that we’re not willing to put in the work, it’s just too easy to get stuck. Too easy to never leave the “Well, I’m still worldbuilding/researching” stage. Too easy to write oneself into a corner or get bogged down in the details.

So this is my advice today for fiction writers:

Learn how to speed paint.

Learn how to work wet on wet.

Learn how to push paint around on the edge of a knife.

Learn how to figure out where things want to live by feel and how to allow for happy little accidents.

There will be places for fine details and intricate sketches. But when you’re staring at a blank canvas and you have no idea where to start… paint the whole thing blue and start scraping up some mountains. 

Quick, broad strokes. That’s all it takes to get you started. Quick, broad strokes and a few happy accidents.

#writing #writing resources

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Hes trying his best. I love him.

#😂😂😂😂😂 #animals #4later

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This is the Goose of Outrageous Self Assuredness.  Take from her example, her ludicrous and excellent poise in the face of bullying, and be confident in your place, your course, your equal validity.

#animals #4later

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Why yes, I did just bake a peach pie solely because I’ve been reading Check Please (and Check please fanfiction if I’m honest). I couldn’t resist making my own Bitty’s pie! 🥧 (Read it at @omgcheckplease if you haven’t, believe me you won’t regret it!!!)

#omgcheckplease #omgcp #about me #bitty is my spirit animal #my coping mechanism is 100% baking and cooking #I can’t ice skate to save my life though

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I love chowder more than anything, my precious child.

Being a freshman on the Samwell Hockey team means sometimes the upperclassmen get really excited about squishing your face.

#why yes i did enter the omgcp fandom out of nowhere #not gonna spam i promise #i just couldnt resist his sweet little face #he’s the human equivalent of a labrador! #omgcheckplease #omgcp

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Its always good to know what to do when your baby is in danger.

#important #animals #4later

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Cute dog snapchats that will make your day better

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When Alexander aimed at the sky He may have been the first one to die But I’m the one who paid for it I survived, but I paid for it

The lyrics in the gifs are from “Make It Out Alive” by the wonderful Peter Cincotti. That part wouldn’t leave me until I made a gifset of Burr with it.

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Listen up. There is literally an app that can help you avoid self harm and I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it.

Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.

It’s also totally FREE.

once again, it’s called CALM HARM

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It’s been said before, but honestly one of the best feelings in the world is when you unexpectedly read a marvelously written fic and you click on the author’s name in AO3 and discover…more works.

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I love this edit

Credit: Broadway.4me

#i love this!!!!! #broadway

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#😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #shrimp heaven when?!?! #mbmbam #the good place

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My dog and my bunny were playing in the back yard and I thought other people might enjoy watching as much as me

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